Grosvenor Prints

[To the King's most excellent Majesty, This plate, The Death of General Wolfe, is with His gracious Permission humbly dedicated by his Majesty's most dutiful Subject, William Woollett. From the original Picture in the Collection of the Right honourable Lord Grosvenor.
Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by W.m W[oollett, Engraver to his Majesty.]
Published as the Act directs January 1.st 1776. by Mess.rs Woollett, Boydell & Ryland, London.]
Engraving. Sheet 440 x 615mm (17¼ x 24¼"), with title excised but present, with separate engraved key of six personages. Trimmed to plate on three sides and to image at bottom.
Large engraving of Benjamin West's famous painting of 1770 (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada) representing the death of the British General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. Despite Wolfe's death, the result of the battle was a decisive British victory. The composition deliberately evokes the Lamentation of Christ, a subject frequently depicted in religious painting. The people in the key Monckton, Col Williamson, Major Barré, Capt Debbing, Capt Hervey Smyth and surgeon Mr Adair.
[Ref: 49808] £420.00 view all images for this item

Plan of different Movements of ye Army of ye Allies under Prince Eugene of Savoy, and of ye French Army, under Marshal Villars; from ye beginning of ye Campaign to ye 24th July, 1712, when ye French attacked ye intrenched Camp at Denain commanded by the E. of Albermarle.
J. Basire sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19").
A plan of the French, English and Dutch movements during the wars of Spanish succession in 1712. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 42393] £120.00

Bataille de Dresde.
Bellangé del.t Litho: de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 445 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins.
The Battle of Dresden (1813), which resulted in a French victory under Napoleon against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussian under Field Marschal Schwartzenberg. Unfortunately the French troops did not completely deter all the Coalition Forces, and a few days later at the Battle of Kulm, Napoleon's forces were surrounded and forced to surrender. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30790] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Crossing the Lines of Brabant] De Linien, in Braband, by Hillisem, ontrent Loven en Thienen [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc: Amst: C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 155 x 180mm (6 x 7"). Trimmed to plate, stained on bottom left corner, some creases.
A scene of the Battle of Elixheim, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant, on 18 July 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession. The Grand Alliance army, led by the Duke of Marlborough, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant, an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur in Belgium.
[Ref: 59238] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Emmendingen] The Battle between the Archduke Charles and General Moreau on the 19th of Oct.r 1796 near Kintzingen.
Painted by H. Singleton. Engraved by N. Schiavonetti Jun.r.
London Published June 1st 1800 by Mess.rs Schiavonetti, 12 Michael Place Brompton.
Stipple. 595 x 715mm (23½ x 28¼"). Small margins. Tear taped on left and right middle margin, wear at edges, some spotting.
A scene of The Battle of Emmendingen, with Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, on horseback leading the advance of his First Coalition Army of the Upper Rhine against the French Army of Rhin-et-Moselle under Jean Victor Marie Moreau.
[Ref: 53907] £280.00

[Battle of Francavilla] Bataille tussen de Keyserlyke Troupen onder het belyt van den Generaal Graas van Mercy [...] [parallel text in Latin]
Pet:Schenk Exc: Amst: C.Priv. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate, folding creases as normal.
A scene of the Battle of Francavilla fought on 20 June 1719, near the city of Francavilla di Sicilia in Sicily between Spain and Austria. The battle was part of the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), caused by Spanish attempts to recover territories in Italy ceded in the 1713 Peace of Utrecht.
[Ref: 59215] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Franche-Comté conquered four the second time, 1674] La Franche Comté conquise pour la seconde fois, 1674.
Magdalena Horthemels, Cochin sculpsit.
à Paris chez Cochin rue S. Jacques au Mescenas [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 295 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"), with very large margins. Paper time stained.
The Franche-Comté (Free County), now in eastern France, was passed to the Spanish when Emperor Charles V inherited the Spanish throne in 1516. It was captured by France in 1668 but returned to Spain in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. This print shows the battle in 1674 which resulted in France taking the territory for the second time.
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45144] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

The French Conscripts.
J.A. Atkinson Del. M. Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold June 4th 1817, by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins watermarked 'J Whatman 1816'. Mint
Soldiers pull young men from their rural home, probably to reinforce Napoleon Bonaparte's army for the Hundred Days. From Orme's ''Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great Britian and her Allies, in the last long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo''. John Augustus Atkinson (1775-1830) was a British etcher, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He spent 1784-1801 in Russia with James Walker who is thought to be his uncle. After returning to London in 1801, he made prints after his works, of Russian subjects, and made outline etchings for other artists. He also executed paintings on military subjects and battles.
[Ref: 55803] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Gaeta] den 30 Sept: 1707 wert Gaeta, waer in de Hertog Escalona, gewese Viceroy van Naples [...] [parallel text in Latin]
P. Schenk exc. Amst. C.P. [n.d. c.1730.]
Engraving, sheet 160 x 190mm (6¼ x 7½"). Trimmed to plate.
A scene of the three-month Siege of Gaeta in 1707 by the Austrian army commanded by Count Wirich Philipp von Daun. Part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the siege ended on 30 September 1707 with the destruction of the city's historic fortifications.
[Ref: 59216] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Englands Glory. The Bombarding of Gueldre by a Body of Troups belonging to the King of Prussia. October 1703.
HRoberts sculp.
[London, 1738.]
Coloured engraving. Plate: 480 x 350mm (19 x 13¾"). Repaired tear in top edge.
The siege of the Spanish-held city of Geldern by the Prussians, February-December 1703, part of the War of the Spanish Succession. It shows cannon and a mortar firing at the burning city, with cannonballs being heated and gun carriages being repaired. The print was published thirty-five years after the event as part of the anti-Spanish propaganda in the build-up to the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-48).
[Ref: 38179] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of the Granicus] La vertu surmonte tout obstacle / Alexandre ayant passé le Granique, attaque les Perses a forces inegales [...]
C le Brun pinxit
Se vend a Paris chez Benoit Audran rue St. Jacques a St. Prosper et chez Jean Audran rue et faubourg St. Jacques vis a vis la rue St. Dominique [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 600mm (11½ x 23½"). Folded as issued.
The Battle of the Granicus River in 334 BC, the first of Alexander the Great's three major battles against the Persian empire, fought in Asia Minor near the site of Troy. One of a series of engravings reproducing a famous set of paintings by Charles Le Brun depicting the battles of Alexander (now in the Louvre).
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45148] £360.00

La Grand Retraite du Duc de Parme.
R. de Hooghe fec. El Cap.n Ing.o Ledesma Disp.
[n.d., c.1670-1699.]
Engraving, rare. Plate: 265 x 325mm (10½ x 12¾"). Trimmed at top, repairs, bit messy.
A large battle scene showing the army of Alessandro Duke of Parma and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands retreating across the Seine during the Eighty Years War, the city of Rouen in the background. An illustration from 'Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre' by Famianus Strada, written with the help of Farnese which discussed the beginning of the Eighty Years War which led up to the Dutch Revolt.
Rijksmuseum: BI-1929-10-31.
[Ref: 43024] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Greek War of Independence.] Grosse Türkische Niederlage bei Thermopylae den 7.ten September 1821.
[Wunder sc.]
[c.1829.]
Etching with original hand colour. Sheet 170 x 240mm (6¾ x 9½"). Trimmed.
A scene from Greek War of Independence (1821-29), possibly the Battle of Alamana (April, not September, 1821), in which 1,500 Greeks, led by Athanasios Diakos & two other captains, fought to hold back the 8,000-strong Ottoman army but were quickly routed. Diakos with 48 men decided to fight on and resisted for several hours before being overwhelmed. Severely wounded he was bought to the Turkish General Vryonis who offered to make him an officer in the Turkish army. Diakos refused replying "I was born a Greek and I shall die a Greek". He was then taken away & impaled. This made him a national hero and to this day streets and statues all over Greece are named after him. The German legend underneath explains how the Greeks cleared the passes on the same ground as their famous ancestors (the 300 spartans etc). There was close quarter fighting and eventually the Greeks got the upper hand. A thousand Turks were killed battle flags captured 7 cannon and 300 wagons etc. Menin Pasha was killed by the Greek leader. Most of this is of course propaganda created by the German printers and German propaganda seven years after the event.
[Ref: 29828] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[The Siege of Huy De Slagh by Turnhout in den Jaere MDXCVII
Jan Luyken [c.1679]
Etching, platemark 275 x 340mm (10¾ x 13½"). Very large margins. Fold through middle as normal.
The Siege of Huy in 1595, a Spanish victory in the Eighty Years' War against the United Provinces supported by England. The Protestant troops of Charles de Héraugière (on the left) lost the town to the Spanish forces and agreed the terms of the capitulation. The town, stormed with Spanish troops, is in the distance. Engraved by Jan Luyken and published in Pieter Bor's 'Nederlandsche Oorlogen' (1679-84). Luyken and his Caspar were at this time the most productive and renowned illustrators at Amsterdam, then the publishing centre of the world. The Historisch Museum in Amsterdam holds the largest collection of his work.
[Ref: 38645] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of the Hydaspes] La vertu plaist quoy que vaincue / Alexandre n'est pas seulement touché de compassion en voyant la grandeur d'ame du Roy Porus qu'il a vaincu [...]
Car. le Brun pinxit
Se vend a Paris chez Benoist Audran, rue St. Jacques a L'Image de St. Prosper et chez Jean Audran rue et faubourg St. Jacques vis a vis la rue St. Dominique [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 600mm (11½ x 23½"). Folded as issued.
The Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, between Alexander the Great and king Porus. The battle was fought on the banks of the river Hydaspes (now known as the Jhelum) in what is now the Punjab region of Pakistan. Alexander was so impressed by Porus' conduct that he allowed Porus to rule Hydaspes in Alexander's name. One of a series of engravings reproducing a famous set of paintings by Charles Le Brun depicting the battles of Alexander (now in the Louvre).
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45149] £360.00

[Battle of Galicia, 1914] The Triumph of Russian Army Great Retire Austrian Army at Renbellg. The Illustration of the Great European War. No. 14.
Shobido & Co. Hitotsu-Bashi Kanda Tokyo Japan. Agent Shobido [...]
[c.1915]
Chromolithograph, sheet 360 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"). Glued onto linen, decorative chromolithograph on verso.
The Battle of Galicia (also known as the Battle of Lemberg), a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914 in what is now the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The battle was won by the Russian army, who from this position ruled Eastern Galicia until June 1915. From a series of Japanese-published scenes of the Great War.
[Ref: 41147] £250.00 (£300.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Tsingtao, 1914] The Japanese General Yamad's Army Ocuupied Chiuo Forts at Tsingtau. The Illustration of the Great European War. No. 38.
Shobido & Co. Hitotsu-Bashi Kanda Tokyo Japan. Agent Shobido [...]
[c.1915]
Chromolithograph, sheet 360 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"). Glued onto linen, British chromolithograph on verso.
The Siege of Tsingtao, an attack on the German port of Tsingtao (Qingdao) in China by Japanese and British forces in 1914, the first year of World War I. It subsequently came under Japanese occupation before reverting to Chinese rule in 1922. From a series of Japanese-published scenes of the Great War.
[Ref: 41145] £320.00

[Siege of Tsingtao, 1914] Banzai, Banzai the Fall of Tsingtau. The Illustration of the Great European War. No. 39.
Shobido & Co. Hitotsu-Bashi Kanda Tokyo Japan. Agent Shobido [...]
[c.1915]
Chromolithograph, sheet 360 x 505mm (14 x 19¾"). Glued onto linen, hunting chromolithographs on verso.
The Siege of Tsingtao, an attack on the German port of Tsingtao (Qingdao) in China by Japanese and British forces in 1914, the first year of World War I. It subsequently came under Japanese occupation before reverting to Chinese rule in 1922. From a series of Japanese-published scenes of the Great War.
[Ref: 41146] £320.00

[Siege of Kampen, 1578.] Wie der Hauptmann Ville die Statt Campen von wegen der Staten in nimptt
Anno Dni M.D. L XXVIII / XX July
Rare engraving, sheet 220 x 315mm (8½ x 12½"). Slight staining. Trimmed to platemark lower edge.
The Siege of Kampen in 1578, in which Protestant rebels led by George van Lalaing reclaimed the town from the Spanish forces which had controlled it since 1572.
[Ref: 38653] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

View of the North face of Kelat, shewing the gate stormed by the Troops, on the 13th November 1839
(Signed) Henry Creed
Lithograph, locally produced, printed area 95 x 235mm (3¾ x 9¼"). Folds, creases and nicks; paper stuck on top left. Very rare.
Unusual lithograph by an amateur artist previously unknown to us. The print depicts the storming of Khelat in Afghanistan in 1839, when British forces were called upon to recapture the fort after the insurgent Mehrah Khan had deposed and murdered the former ruler.
[Ref: 44482] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Kufstein] The Tyrolese Patriots, Men and Women storming the fortress of Kuffstein with their Wooden Guns.
Manskirch Del. Clark & Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold April 1st 1816, by Edw.d Orme, Bond Street, corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. 245 x 325mm (9¾ x 12¾"), with very large margins watermarked 'J Whatman 1814'. Mint.
Tyrolese irregulars attacking the fortress of Kufstein in 1809, attempting to remove the Bavarians who had held it since 1703. After a month, relief arrived, but the fortress was returned to Austria in 1814. From Orme's ''Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great Britian and her Allies, in the last long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo''.
[Ref: 55802] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Lentrée du Sulley a la Rochelle en 1627
[Anon., c.1650]
Etching, sheet 125 x 275mm (5 x 10¾"). Trimmed, folded and glued to backing sheet; parts of text effaced and replaced in ms ('Sulley'; 'en 1627'); portrait of Jean Caylar d'Anduze de Saint-Bonnet verso.
The Siege of La Rochelle, France, in 1627-28, in which the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle was taken by Louis XIII and his Catholic forces. Portrait verso of the Marquis of Toiras, who sustained the three month siege of nearby Saint-Martin-de-Ré, also in 1627.
[Ref: 44212] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

Landau.
Georg Phil. Rugendas. Abraham Drentwett Ornam: del. Ioh: August Corvinus Sculpsit.
Cum Gratia et Privileg: Sac: Caes: Majest: Ieremias Woldd excudit, Aug: Vind: [n.d., c.1720.]
Engraving. Sheet: 420 x 380mm (16½ x 15"). Trimmed, vertical crease. Slightly visible from front.
A battle scene showing the Siege of Landau in 1702, during the War of Spanish Succession in which an army of the Holy Roman Empire laid siege to the town of Landau which was held by the French. The scene is decorated with a ornate border, with a plan of the battle above. A plate from 'Repraesentatio belli ob successionem in Regno Hispanico...' published by Wolff.
[Ref: 42970] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille de Laupen le 21 Juin 1339. No.2.
L. Midart inv. Sculps. et Excudit, Solodori.
à Berne chéz P.F. Tessaro M.d d'Estampes [n.d., c.1820].
Etching with hand colour. Sheet 360 x 480mm (14¼ x 19"). Some creasing and scuffing.
A view of the Battle of Laupen, June 21st 1339, between Bern and Freiburg and their allies, with infantry in the foreground and heavy cavalry behind. Like the Battle of Bannockburn 25 years earlier, the tactics of the infantry negated the impact of the heavily-armoured cavalry, resulting in high casualties among the nobility, changing the style of European warfare.
[Ref: 57349] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Fig. 4. Tom I. [in ink.]
Joann Joseph Waldtman del: Joann Ulrich Kraus Scul:
[n.d. c.1657.]
Engraving. 355 xx 226mm. 14 x 8¾". Spotting. Wormhole.
One of 26 plates illustrating the numerous campaigns, military and diplomatic, of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, against Turkey, which had invaded Hungary, and against France in 1700 at the time of the Spanish Succession. From: [Roncaglia] Admirabilis efectos de la Providencia sucedidos en la vida, e imperio de Leopoldo invictissimo primero emperador de Romanos, reduzelos has anal historicos la verdad. 1734. 3 Vols.
[Ref: 14578] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Leucate] La Signallée Victoire Optenuë par les Armes Ru Roy, Contre les Espaignols en la levée et suit su Siege de Leucatre Commandje par M.r le Duc d'Hallewin les 28 et 29 Septembre 1637.
Joa. Picart incidit.
Avec Privilege et Patante du Roy. [n.d., c.1637.]
Rare engraving, 17th century watermark. 260 x 400mm (10¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed within plate at bottom, edged with album paper, repaired tear.
A map-view of the battle ending the Siege of Leucate, with the French repelling the Spanish invaders of Languedoc during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-59). The leading figures of the French army are named, depicted mounted and in armour, with the main battle behind.
[Ref: 51998] £380.00

[Leipzig] 'Brother the Lord is with us.' The Emperor of Russia, King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Austria, Spontaneously returning thanks in the Field of Battle after the Great Victory at Leipsic, in 1813.
London, Pub. by Thomas Kelly, No. 53 Paternoster row, Feb. 4 1815.
Coloured engraving. Sheet 195 x 240mm (7¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed and mounted in album paper.
From Christopher Kelly's 'The Memorable Battle of Waterloo'.
[Ref: 37118] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)

[Bombardement de Lille, Par les Austriens, au Mois de Septemb. 1792.]
Peint par Watteau Pere à Lille. Gravé par Masquelier le J.ne à Paris.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching. proof before title. 505 x 675mm (20 x 26½"), with large margins. Repairs at original centre fold.
A large scene of the Austrian army bombarding Lille in 1792, defended by a Republican garrison during the War of the First Coalition. The figure mounted on a whte horse in the foreground is probably Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen (1738-1822), the Habsburg commander. After firing 60,000 shots into the city, the Austrians eventually withdrew to avoid being encircled by a French relief army.
[Ref: 59323] £420.00

The Battle of Lowositz in Bohemia 1st October 1756.
[Anon., c.1760.]
Engraving, platemark 175 x 220mm (7 x 8¾"). Very large margins. Creases.
The Battle of Lobositz (Lovosice, present day Czech Republic) was the opening land battle in the Seven Years' War between the Prussian and Austrian forces, and a stalemate with both sides gaining victories in different respects. An unusually graphic view of a battlefield strewn with dead soldiers and horses.
[Ref: 38657] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Lovenstein. [Battle of Loevenstein, 19th December 1570.] Es seind gewest drey man allein / So ingenommen Louenstein [...]
[Hogenburg.]
Anno Dmi M.D. LXXI
Engraving. Sheet: 215 x 305mm, (8½ x 12"). Lower left corner torn and reattached.
A battle scene showing the recapture of Loevenstein Castle by Habsburg troops on 19th December 1570 during the Eighty Years War. The castle had been taken from the Spanish ten days earlier by the dutch rebels led by Herman de Ruyter. The Dutch later recaptured the castle in 1572. The image shows the Spansh troops, flying the flag of the Seventeen Provinces advancing on the castle while the Dutch fight furiously, Herman de Ruyter (labelled in image) is shown defending a breach in the wall.
[Ref: 40311] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[The Siege of Douai.]
Seb. le Clerc Sculp.
Engraving, proof before title. Sheet 390 x 545mm (15¼ x 21½").
Louis XIV standing in front of a wounded soldier, soldiers collecting firewood on right, and view of Douai in distance. Representation of the siege of Douai in 1667 during the War of Devolution (1667-8) in which Louis XIV's armies gained land in the Spanish Netherlands and the Franche-Comté but were forced to give most of it back to a Triple Alliance of England, Sweden and the Dutch Republic. From a series of five plates reproducing the compositions invented by Charles Lebrun for a set of tapestries celebrating the victories of Louis XIV.
[Ref: 43609] £360.00

The Battle of Taniers MDCCIX. In the begining of this Campaig his Grace the Duke of Marlborough having made a shew of attaching ye Enemy's Army in their Strong Lines, near La Bassee [...]
[anon., c.1720]
Etching and engraving with hand-colouring, platemark 270 x 330mm (10½ x 13"). Very large margins. Later.
Taniers, better known as Malplaquet, was the bloodiest battle of the eighteenth century, fought during the war of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). The Allies, under Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy, beat the French, but, having 21,000 dead to the French army's 11,000, it was a pyrrhic victory. The losses prompted the English Tory party to begin agitating for a withdrawal from the war.
[Ref: 37021] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Marmande under siege]
[Anon., c.1600]
Engraving, platemark 145 x 200mm (5¾ x 8"). Title scratched out; glued to backing sheet.
Early battle scene seemingly showing Marmande in south-western France under siege at two separate times: on the left in 1489, and on the right during the Hundred Years' War in 1580 when it was finally won by France.
[Ref: 38548] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

[The Battle of Meeanee.]
[E. Amritage pinx.t. J.B. Allen sculp.t.]
[London, James S. Virtue.] [n.d., 1870.]
Chine collé steel engraving, proof before letters. 330 x 455mm (13 x 17¾"), with very wide margins. Printsellers' Association blind stamp.
The Battle of Miani, 17th February 1843, between the Bombay Army of the East India Company and the Baluch Army, Sind (now Pakistan). In the foreground men of a flank company of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment are shown charging the mass of Baluchi warriors in the dried-up bed of the River Fullaillee. The commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, directs the battle from his horse in the background. Napier's victory over a force ten time the size of his own led to the fall of Hyderabad two days later. Exhibited in Westminster Hall in 1847, Armitage's painting won a premium of £500 and was seen and purchased by Queen Victoria for £400. Napier, however, was critical: ''in Armitage's I am in rear of the troops – whereas I was in front the whole time… Armitage has placed me where I was, as regards the ground; but he has placed the troops wrongly as they did not fight down in the Bed of the river''. The finished plate was published in 'Gems of European Art'.
[Ref: 54049] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Siege of Fort St Philip, Minorca, January 1782.] Siege du Fort St Philippe Vu de la batterie de la Mola pendant la nuit du 15 au 16 Janvier 1782 [...]
Dessiné par le Paon Peintre de S.A.S. M.gr le Prince de Conde Gravé par Godefroy de l'Academie Imperiale et Royale de Vienne, & c.
A Paris chez M.r Godefroy, rue des Francs-bourgeois Porte St Michel et chez Mr. Ponce Graveur de M.g le Comte d'Artois, rue Hiacinthe A.P.D.R.
Engraving, sheet 210 x 220mm (8¼ x 8¾"). Trimmed inside platemark.
Battle scene towards the end of the siege of Fort St Philip (which dominated the great natural harbour of Mahon in Minorca), which lasted from August 1781 until February 1782, when the garrison of James Murray, ravaged by scurvy, laid down their arms. Murray's conduct during the siege (which included turning down a secret bribe of £1 million sterling to surrender from the French commander de Crillon) earned him the nickname Old Minorca from his troops. Murray was made a full general in 1783 and retired to his residence near Battle in Sussex. Engraved after a design by Jean-Baptiste Le Paon (1736/8-85).
[Ref: 40361] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Prise de Munich.
Monfort del. Litho de C. Motte.
[n.d. c.1826.]
Lithograph. Sheet 445 x 596mm (17½ x 23½"), with very large margins.
The taking of Munich by Napoleon in 1805; the end to Napoleon's Ulm Campaign. Unable to stop the French advance and troops attacking from all areas, the Austrian troops abandoned its positions along the Danube and fled to Munich. Published in A.V. Arnault's 'Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon', Paris, 1822-1826.
[Ref: 30788] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Bataille De Wagram. (6 Juliet 1809.)
Peint par Horace Vernet. Gravé par Jazet.
[n.d., c.1840].
Aquatint. Printed area: 580 x 440mm. (22¾ x 17¼"), with wide margins. Tear at top going into plate mark.
Napoleon on horseback, observing the battle of Wagram. The Battle of Wagram (5-6 July 1809) was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars and ended in a decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon I. The battle virtually spelled the destruction of the Fifth Coalition, the Austrian and British-led alliance against France.
[Ref: 31383] £390.00

[French victory over the Saracens in the Battle of Narbonne, 731] Bataille de Narbonne, ou les Sarrazins furent vaincus par les François, l'an 731. page 34
[Anon., c.1750]
Engraving with letterpress, sheet 205 x 235mm (8 x 9¼"). Trimmed and glued to backing sheet. Stamp of bibliothèque Talhouet, du cabinet de la Lambardais lower right.
After the French town of Narbonne was captured by Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, governor of Al-Andalus in 719/720 it was later regained by the Franks as shown here.
[Ref: 38550] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

A Representation of the Armies of King Charles I and Sir Thomas Fairfax, exhibiting the exact Order in which the Several Bodies of Infantry and Cavalry were drawn up, Preparatory to the Battle of Naseby, fought the 14th of June 1645.
[n.d., c.1700.]
Engraving. Sheet: 260 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Trimmed and tipped into album sheet.
A topographical battle plan showing the armies of Charles I and Prince Rupert and Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax at the Battle of Naseby in 1645, with a portrait of Fairfax in an oval in the top right corner. The Battle of Naseby was a decisive battle in the First Civil War as it all but destroyed the Royalist force and within a year Parliament had won the war. A later copy of a larger print by John Streater.
[Ref: 42938] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

The Description of the Armies of Horse and Foot of his Majesties, and S.r Thomas Fairefax his Excellency, as they were drawn into severall bodyes, at the Battayle at Naseby; the Fowerteenth day of June 1645.
Streeter fecit.
[Printed for John Partridge.][n.d., c.1647.]
A very scarce engraving. Sheet: 490 x 735mm (19¼ x 29''). Backed and edged with cotton backing, damage, folds and creases as normal. Some foxing in plate.
A topographical battle plan showing the armies of Charles I and Prince Rupert and Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax at the Battle of Naseby in 1645, with a portrait of Fairfax in an oval in the top right corner. The Battle of Naseby was a decisive battle in the First Civil War as it all but destroyed the Royalist force and within a year Parliament had won the war.
A different state to image in 'Anglia Rediviva 1647'.
[Ref: 50424] £850.00 view all images for this item

The Boasted Crossing of the Nieman, At the opening of the Campaign in1812, by N. Bonaparte.
From a drawing by an Officer. Clark & Dubourg Sculp.t.
Published & Sold Jan.y 1st 1816, by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty & the Regent, Bond Str. corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 360mm (10 x 14¼"), with large margins. Mint.
Napoleon Bonaparte watches from the bank as his infantry cross a makeshift bridge (actually three pontoon bridges) and his cavalry ford the Neman River into Lithuania, at the start of the Russuan Campaign. From Orme's ''Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great Britian and her Allies, in the last long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo''.
[Ref: 55804] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Battle of Oosterweel, 1567] Bataille d'Austerweel donnée le 13 mars l'an 1567
[Anon., c.1650]
Engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Large margins. Creases as normal.
The Battle of Oosterweel, near Antwerp in modern-day Belgium. The battle, which took place in March 1567, is usually considered the start of the Eighty Years' War and saw the Spanish army defeat an army of Calvinist rebels.
[Ref: 38643] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Prise de la Ville d'Oudenarde le 5 Juillet l'an 1582 Tom III pag 334
[Anon., c.1680]
Engraving, platemark 130 x 165mm (5 x 6½"). Large margins; creases as normal.
During the Reformation, the town of Oudenaarde (now in Belgium) was Protestant and sided with Ghent against Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. Charles' son Alexander Farnese subsequently laid siege to a number of Flemish towns, including Oudenaarde which was taken by the Counter-Reformation in 1582, as shown here.
[Ref: 38547] £50.00 (£60.00 incl.VAT)

Pillage Des Reitres Pendant les Guerres Civilles des Francois, sous Henry 3 en 1587. Grave s'Apres le Tableau Original de P.pe Wouvermens, de deux pieds cinq pounces de large, sur vingt un pounces de haus qui appartient au graveur. Avec privilege du Roi. 39.e
P.pe Wouvermens pinx. J. Moureay Sculp.
AParis chez Moyreau Graveur du Roi, rue Gallande, vis-a-vis la Chapelle S.t Blaise. 1740.
Engraving, 18th century watermark, plate 360 x 470mm (14¼ x 18½") very large margins. Repaired printer's crease.
Battle scene from War of the Three Henrys (Guerre des trois Henri 1587–1589) the eighth conflict in the series of civil wars in France known as the Wars of Religion. In the surroundings of a village countrymen defend themselves against rogue soldiers, while others flee. Plate 39 from 'Oeuvres de Philippe Wouwermens Hollandois' a series of eighty-nine plates reproducing paintings by Wouwerman, executed between c.1733 and 1762.
[Ref: 56642] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[Porus in battle] La vraye valeur est toujours invincible / Porus abandonné des siens blessa plusieurs de ceux qui l'environnoient [...]
Car. le Brun pinxit J. Audran excudit
Se vend à Paris chez B. Audran au Palais de Luxembourg et Chez J. Audran a l'entrée du Faubourg St. Jaque vis a vis l'Ygret. [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 600mm (11½ x 23½"). Folded as issued.
King Porus distinguishing himself in the Battle of the Hydaspes against Alexander the Great in the ancient kingdom of Pauravas (now part of the Punjab province of Pakistan). One of a series of engravings reproducing a famous set of paintings by Charles Le Brun depicting the battles of Alexander (now in the Louvre).
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45147] £360.00

Plan of the Incampment of the Allies at Prats del Rey under the command of Count Staremberg; and of ye Enemy under the Duke of Wendosme; where ye two Armies lay from ye 17th of Septem.r to ye 25th of Decem.r 1711N.S. when ye Enemy decamped, and ye Allies the 27th.
J. Basire sculp.
For Mr Tindal's Continuation of Mr Rapin's History of England. [London, James & Paul Knapton, 1751.]
Engraved map. 390 x 480mm (15¼ x 19").
Plan of the encampments of the Franco-Spanish armies and the armies of the British and the Holy Roman Empire during their stand off in Spain at the end of 1711. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774), at one time Chaplain to Greenwich Hospital, first published a translation of Frenchman Paul de Rapin's 'History of England' in 1727, running to thirteen volumes; in 1732 it was enlarged with his own notes and maps. This map was published in 'A summary of Mr Rapin de Thoyras's History of England, and Mr Tindal's Continuation, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the End of the Reign of King George I. Illustrated With Medals, Plans of Battles, Towns, and Sieges', 1751.
[Ref: 42391] £190.00

Prise de San Dimas au Montserrat.
Dessiné par Langlois et Delamare. Joly Lit: Fig: par C.L.
Lith: de Engelmann, rue Louis-le-Grand No.27 à Paris. [n.d. c.1840.]
Lithograph. 292 x 430mm. 11½ x 17".
Montserrat, Catalunia, Spain.
[Ref: 15607] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Bivouac in the Pyrennees. The night before the Battle.
J. A. Atkinson del. Fry & Sutherland sculp.t.
Published & Sold June 4th 1815 by Edw.d Orme, Publisher to his Majesty & H.R.H. the Prince Regent, Bond Street, corner of Brook St. London.
Coloured aquatint. 255 x 330mm (10 z 13"). Faint spotting.
Wellington and his officers around a fire, the night before the Battle of the Pyrenees, fought 25th-30th July 1813. A plate from Orme's 'Historic, Military, and Naval Anecdotes, Of Personal Valour, Bravery, and particular Incidents which occurred to the Armies of Great Britain and her Allies, in the last long-contested War, terminating with the Battle of Waterloo'. This was the first plate of the series, eventually published complete in 1819. It is interesting that this plate was published just over two months after the event shown.
Abbey: Life 376.
[Ref: 33730] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Death of General Wolfe at Quebec.
Painted by B. West. Engraved by de Launay.
London Published by Tessari & Co. [n.d., c.1790.]
Stipple and etching with small margins. Platemark: 325 x 400mm (12¾ x 15¾"). Repaired tear in lower margin. Light foxing in margins.
General James Wolfe (1727-59), killed at the moment of his famous victory over the French at Quebec, which delivered Canada into the hands of the British. Wolfe, supported by three grenadiers, succumbs to his fatal wounds, watched by nine other officers and a native American warrior to the left. After Pennsylvanian painter Benjamin West (1738 - 1820). West moved to London in 1763, where he remained, becoming President of the Royal Academy.
[Ref: 35771] £530.00

[To the King's most excellent Majesty, This plate, The Death of General Wolfe.]
[Painted by B. West, Historical Painter to His Majesty. Engraved by Theod. Falkerysen.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. Proof working impression. Sheet size: 430 x 585mm (17 x 23"). Trimmed to image. Glued to backing sheet with ink borders.
A working proof impression by Theodore Falkeysen of Benjamin West's most celebrated painting, 'The Death of General Wolfe', 1770 (Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada), which represents the death of the British General James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec in 1759 during the Seven Years' War. Despite Wolfe's death, the result of the battle was a decisive British victory. For a completed impression by Falkeysen, see item ref: 39485.
[Ref: 39487] £520.00

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